Impressive use of that machine!  Amazing....

They are good for that job - all four wheels can be steered so you can do a crabbing action which he used to knock the big lumps down then clear out.
It has always drifted badly through there, in the past the council could take days to get around to clearing it with a conventional JCB tractor style digger or (even slower) once or twice sent a snowblower.
Now a lot of fairly standard farm kit plays with that sort of work.

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Slightly surreal large drifts on fields already swept almost bare - sun today soon greened them completely.

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50946840821_4f96be3544_h.jpg

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Beautiful day - reached 7 deg C, so snow thawing fast, but ice taking a bit longer to shift....

Sunrise

Railway 15^th Feb

Cromdales this afternoon

Snowdrops appearing

Snowmen melting 

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It's incredible how quickly the snow is going - after being here for so long.  9C yesterday and 7C today with strong winds....

Snowmen 16^th 9 am

Snowmen 16^th 3.40 pm

Railway 16^th

Hills 16^th

Garden 16^th

Rainbow 17^th

Garden 17^th

Snowing again 17^th 5 pm

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I noticed that Balmoral was wettest in Britain yesterday at 32mm. That must have thawed a lot of snow on low ground but did it add to the snow total on the hills?

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The Loch Morlich webcam - Loch Morlich Watersports — Webcam is showing the foothills of the Cairngorms with less snow.  

Another windy day and 6C, so here there's a definite thaw on our local hills.  

 

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Result of all the snow - Snow melt!

No path to the bridge

No path here either

Wet feet to the seat

Bathing Pool 6th February

Bathing Pool 21^st Feb

View from the Old Spey Bridge 27^th Jan

View from the Old Spey Bridge 21^st Feb

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Always surprising just how fast snow can thaw

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There's still a bit of snow on the hills - 

The Cromdales

The Cairngorms

And in the garden, the Snowdrops are in bloom...

Not Snowdrops, but the Leucojum or Summer Snowflakes are also out.

The Daffies could be a wee while yet!  

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Not sure where best to post this - enjoy....

'Floating ship' photographed off Cornish coast by walker
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-56286719 


Roger

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Amazing image Roger. Thanks for posting.

A new illusion for one of the members here perhaps.

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Not sure where best to post this - enjoy....

'Floating ship' photographed off Cornish coast by walker
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-56286719

Roger

 

 

https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/video/news/floating-boat-optical-illusion-video/

Wow! What a coincidence. A similar event happened near Banff on the North East coast of Scotland. 

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https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/video/news/floating-boat-optical-illusion-video/

Wow! What a coincidence. A similar event happened near Banff on the North East coast of Scotland. 

Aliens?

R.

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Daffie's spring flowers, frog spawn and the last of the snow on the hills....

No Daffies yet!  They are still about 2 inches in height.

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The last bit of snow higher up (which could be seen from the house) disappeared here yesterday, there are probably still a few patches in shade along the Cleveland Hills.
Drifts can survive into May along there fairly regularly

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1pm 10th April

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